automotive

Former Apple Engineer Arrested At Airport With Self-Driving Car Plans On July 7, the FBI nabbed ex-Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang, just before he boarded a last-minute flight to China and charged him with stealing trade secrets. Zhang was hired in December 2015 to develop hardware and software for self-driving cars at Apple… Read more…

Tesla’s sprawling Gigafactory has yet to kick into full swing, but that isn’t stopping the electric car maker from giving its plant an official debut. It’s inviting its biggest fans (including those who referred buyers) to a grand opening for the Gigafactory on July 29th, even though the Nevada facility is Read more…

NXP, the Netherlands-based purveyor of automotive semiconductors, today launched a smart-car computing system called BlueBox that knits together devices that the company already sells. “We already build processors for radar, vision, and LIDAR, and we see these systems now being combined,” says Bob Conrad, who heads NXP’s automotive microcontroller business. He spoke from his Austin, Read more…